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Topic Review (Newest First)

01-25-2011 07:57 PM

PCP

I will leave you with a description of why juries voted on the winning boats (posted previously by Slap on another thread) and with a Video of the awards announcement, at the Dusseldorf boat fair. I know that it is in German but it is kind of funny to see respectable guys jumping of joy and behave like kids

There is a full write up to a degree on ALL the boats that won. Jeanneau had two winners, the SO409 in the faily cruiser, and 1st in the under 40' MV class with the NC11. They did pretty well all around.

Marty

01-24-2011 07:30 AM

PCP

Some information about the criteria to select the boats:

The panel of judges assessed performance, comfort, construction quality, price -performance ratio, design and the unique selling criteria of each candidate. 'Performance levels were incredibly high this year. This made our decision very difficult in some cases,' said YACHT editor-in-chief Jochen Rieker, summarizing the current results. 'We were also impressed with the level of innovation shown by the boat builders and by their readiness to adapt elements from the regatta scene, for example,' added the yachting expert.

Glad to see the E350 won, appears to be a very nice boat. Altho I thought a few years ago the Europeans did things a bit more by length. To me the F30 and E350 would have been the best two in that group. but the F30 granted only 5' shorter, a lot can happen in that 30-35' difference. Not so much from 35 to 40.

Now need to go to the Jeanneau owners site, and see if there is a post re the 409 winning! That would be fun, some chap from the left coast skiing in the mtns with the who won before the european folks posting. Hopefully Malcom is on this already!

Thanks HdChopper . But that is not really difficult. I would have chosen exactly the same boats as the ones that were chosen by all those testers. Only regarding the Saffier I would have choose otherwise. Probably the Tofinou 12

All the pre-nominated boats (several in each category) are test sailed together in several locations by all testers. The voting results are announced in the Dusseldorf boat show, on this weekend.

The testers were unanimous in stating that this year was a very good year with many excellent sailboats. Some even had said that this year brought significant advances to cruising boats and better boats.

Take a look at the testing and at the nominated boats (we talked of almost all of them on the "interesting sailboats" thread):